The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1887-06-09

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uninhabited. General Sherman con
Elsidered the report of such value and
inportanee haa lie ordered II = Be
printed
Cap1aia Fiefse Was not cnIk q
/ soldier bsff Ae vas 4 Christian sol
dier. He died aaaid the fesfs of his
comrades with these words On his
lips q die trusting il my saviof. 4
Glorious words for j. soldier Meet
words for d christian! The dying
triumph ola saint!
His life was spent ia doing good.
AT the University he burnt ambition
and inspiration into the hearts of
the students. He bnoyed Up the
esprit da corps Of the cadets. He
set the example Of d Cody walk
and conversation" daily before them.
He taught them, always himself pre-
pared, weekly at the Sunday school.
He bowed his head in prayer before
them in chapel and in church. He
loved his wife and children and gave
them and the public charities freely
all his living. HesWas both just and
generous, and prodigal with his sub
stance to all good works. He was
scrupnlously neat lin his person and
habits. Eschewed his military trap
pings carefully. except upon dress
occasions. Was studious, punctual,
accurate. His mind was finely dis
eliminating He hated mean man,
would not speak to dishonorable
one, and loved true one. He had
an enthusiastic genius for mathe-
matics. This he carried to the ex-
IRENE Of ardor. His conclusions at
the !, quod erat deneonstrano dun,
amounted to4a hilarious outburst Of.
joy at his triumph, and it was a stu
pid pupil who did not in a measure
share it. When he left the .Univer-
sity, which was only, when the mex
orable rules Of the War Department
would no longer permit the school.
to retain him in the position, then
already long expired, he joined his.
regiment at Fort Vancouver, on. the
Pacific. twas there, in 1876, in
stealing of resting in garrison, as
many offcersido, he gave to the world
through the advice and approval+of
the best scholars and linguists of
our time, his matchless Rhythmic
Prose Translation Of VirgiPs
Eneid,'' which: was followed in 1884
by the posthumous publication of
his translation of the "Odes Of Hor-
ace, !" a work which the careful eye
Of his affectionate wife and helpmeet
saw through the press. -
Had he lived he would have taken
high rank as an author and writer.
His style is beautifully chaste and
elegant just like his life. It was
delightful to listen to his voice. His
sentences fell in mellow period. His
salient mind grasped at once sub
stance without the shadow. There
was no verbiage or sham in his life
or letters. He was pure gold. And
now that he is gone, if We listen, in
the stiffness we may hear the pull
sing Of his gentle life as it draws us
sweetly, softly to the other shore.
eve hold this true, whate'er befall,
And feel it when we sorrow most, 81
IT'S better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all"
His wife and children, Kate, Olive
and Warren, survive him, and now.
live in Morgantown, where their
happy lives were spent. If neither
his dust nor a fitting shaft hold his
memory there, yet he lives perpetu-
ally in the lives and hearts of hun
dreds who went out from his pres
ence to build for themselves habi-
tations such as he enjoys. -. III. /
And this was all he asked. /. \ a#i# i
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